| Show utah state editors enjoy annual summer outing at como springs sixty odd utah editors and publishers wives and families saturday laid aside the worries of making the deadline dead line to frolic and make merry at the annual summer outing of the utah state press association at t como springs after a short business session in the morning at which routine association affairs were discussed and at which president val H cowles of price presided the newspapermen pa enjoyed a picnic lunch in the park A softball sott ball game between the northern and southern teams was a feature of the afternoon doings leland buress of bingham captioned the northerners and H 0 cherry of salina headed the players from the south the southerners won the game by a close margin and were presented with a challenge cup which will be put up again next year at the outing another feature likely to be continued each year will be the bathing beauty contest won this year by stewart baird and frank edgar of salt lake city saturday evening the editors were feted with a banquet and dance at the springs S D perry and C K X perry of Co coalville alville C A epperson of mr and mrs roy A Sch onlan of duchesne and vivian johnson of morgan formed the committee in charge of program arrangements during the banquet richard T fry of morgan was presented with a gift from the association as a token for his big outstanding friendship the committee and all members present wish to compliment mrs helner heiner upon the excellent manner in which this splendid banquet was served sunday morning at 1100 a caravan of about 15 cars left como tor for a side trip into summit county they were met at the echo dam by representatives of the coal ville lions club and E J jones caretaker of the dam and were conducted down thru the tunnel to the spillway leaving the dam the caravan proceeded to the new oil well of the mountain fuel supply co just east cast or of Co coalville alville drilling operations were in progress at the time ot of the visit and was already at a depth of teet feet this well Is being sunk by the rocky mountain drilling company and the equipment Is the most modem to be found anywhere upon leaving the ohio well the party visited the long wall well located in section 35 township 3 north range 5 east about miles northeast of Co coalville alville the depth of this well at the present time Is 2875 feet there was no formal program and no speeches were made however many questions were asked to which mr roberts was called upon to answer the party left ap 1 parent patently ly well satisfied that they knew more about oil structures and oil prospecting from this point the caravan went to a shady nook on chalk creek where a very much appreciated precia ted mitch lunch had beer been prepared and presented by the Co coalville alville lions club members of the coalville Co alville lions club who had charge of the serving of the delicious luncheon were melvin blonquist dr F J rees W H dunn S R salmon and ward morby after the lunch mr roberts pres ident of the long wall petroleum corporation was called upon for a few remarks and he complimented the visitors for the very practical and intelligent questions that had bad been asked at the long wall well ile he referred that the guests had been invited to this location for three reasons first the restful surroundings roun dings and dutch lunch second of a historical nature and third the geological significance and exposures near bear and around where they stood he related having in 1917 called upon the late thomas beech one of the earliest pioneers of this section for some authentic information regarding the very earliest coal mining activity around coalville Co alville mr beech stated that in 1849 a few families moved to what is now coalville Co alville and some of them stayed in Co alville during the winter of 1849 and 1850 their coal supply was mined and hauled from a point just to the left of the present wagon road about yards from where they ate their lunch this was on what is now known as the wasatch coal bed and lies in a vertical position at this location he built his shanty directly over the opening in other words the coal was picked out of his cellar as it were and hoisted with a bucket and rope the people of Co alville got their coal supply f from rom this same location during the winter of 1850 and 1851 in the spring of 1851 the shanty burned down and more was ever done at this location the present marker is a small green grassy spot due to the moisture percolating out from where the coal was dug and should be he suggested the site of a permanent marker for while the earliest his tory of utah does not record this event it is so far as known the spot I 1 where the first coal was mined in utah mr roberts then referred to the mowry shale exposed at skunks point about yards down the road from where the lunch was set and that the measures at this point were slightly overturned he referred to the mowry shale as producing the tha larger percentage of the oil that has been recovered in the rocky mountain region and referring to the sands in close proximity geologically speaking as the containers or the formations with the porosity volume to hold the petroleum products until released by the drill he called attention to this objective as the goal of the oil wells drilled thus tar far in this district the first two wells never penetrated the sands in this geological zone therefore neither of 0 them can be considered as having been a test of the district but that both wells now being drilled should according to all of the latest geological information on the district intercept these objective sands in the very near future and that indications are most promising for big production |
